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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
1. I don't see anything related to season length. It was all related to HRR projections.
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The Larry brooks article posted in here mentioned it. Next season the players are receiving 72% of their salary due to the 60 game schedule.
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2. It's still escrow. It's held back because the final value is uncertain. It is distributed back to each party once the value is known. The amount the player's put into escrow is fixed/capped. It's just a matter of how long before they get any of it back.
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I agree. All I said is that they’d be stuck paying the elevated escrow because they are fixed and you asked for a citation so I gave you one. I’m aware they get it back if revenues go high enough.
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3. Excess revenue would absolutely be split back among the players. It's just never happened because the cap was designed on a false notion that most teams wouldn't end up spending over the mid-point (and the escalators). The owners pay into escrow, too (at least theoretically).
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I thought the players had received payment when the league had higher than expected revenues in some previous seasons but in any event I’m not disagreeing with you at all on the principles of escrow. My comment about the potential oversimplification was simply based on the fact that I don’t know if the excess revenue paid back to players is divided equally or if its division is weighted based on the players individual salaries. Maybe someone on here knows those details.